Design of Electronic Circuits 1 - ZEIT1206

 
Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
 
 
School:  School of Engineering & Information Technology @ ADFA
 
 
Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
 
 
Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Excluded: ZITE1201
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Resistance and Ohm's Law; Kirchoff's voltage and current laws; power; simple DC circuits; superposition; Thevenin's theorem; Norton's theorem; node and mesh analysis; dependent sources; electrical measurements; RMS voltages and currents; capacitance and inductance; impedance and admittance; phasors; simple AC circuits, transformers. Introduction to intrinsic and doped semiconductors; formation and characteristics of a PN junction diode; Zener and avalanche breakdown. Diode rectifier and simple filter circuits. Regulated power supplies using Zener diodes. Basic construction and characteristics of bipolar junction transistors (BJT); biasing circuits and Q-point selection. DC and graphical analysis of single-stage, small-signal low-frequency amplifier circuits. Introduction to electronic CAD tools (PSPICE). Operational amplifiers; ideal and non-ideal performance; introduction to filter and wave shaping circuit applications. Choosing electronic components.